. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . Umbria,and Ancona, King Aictor Emmanuel soon found himselfthe sovereign of a kingdom of 22,000,000 of wishes of the people and the eftbrts of Victor Em-manuel and his government to achieve the entue posses-sion of Italy, including the city of Eome for the futurecapital, are too recent and well known to need recoimtiughere. The delay of the Emperor Napoleon III. to with-draw his troops fro
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . Umbria,and Ancona, King Aictor Emmanuel soon found himselfthe sovereign of a kingdom of 22,000,000 of wishes of the people and the eftbrts of Victor Em-manuel and his government to achieve the entue posses-sion of Italy, including the city of Eome for the futurecapital, are too recent and well known to need recoimtiughere. The delay of the Emperor Napoleon III. to with-draw his troops from Rome, the lamented death of CoimtCavour, the great statesman of Italy, the more recent andrenewed efforts of the brave and noble hero, Garibaldi, to 364 THE COURT OF SARDINIA. achieve the complete unity of Italy, and his unfortunatewound and capture, have excited the deep interest, andthe sympathy of nations and the world. This brief sketch will serve to present not only KingVictor Emmanuel in his character and relations to Italyand the nations; but also to bring into view two otherimperial personages, who have acted and are still actingimportant parts on the great theatre of COUNT DE CAVOUR, THE GREAT STATESMAN OF ITALY AND OF EUROPE. Those whom the gods love, die young, said the an-cients : how fortunate would they have esteemed one whohad carried through, with uniform success, an enterpriseof such unparalleled audacity that, to borrow the wordsof Clarendon, speaking of the great patriot statesmanHampden, he alone had a heart to conceive, a head tocontrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute it;and who then died just as he had set his seal on theundertaking which, from being the dream of his 3outh,became the labor of his manhood, and finally, his claim tothe grateful homage of all future generations, sinking downinto his grave in the full glory of his intellect, at the verypinnacle of power and fame, amid the tears of friends and re-lations, mourned for by
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